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Hello Gentoo'ers

I've been playing with Ubuntu for a while. There was 1 particular feature I found extremely handy. Every memory stick or MP3 player I connected to the usb bus automatically got an icon on the desktop that I could use to browse its contents. There even was a different icon for a normal USB stick and an MP3 player. CDRoms got a similar icon.

My question now: how do I get this done in Gentoo? Should I switch to udev?

In Ubuntu I didn't have to change anything in i.e. /etc/fstab. It all just worked automatically after installation. Very nicely done.

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Thanks for all the replies!

I got udev working now (together with hal and hotplug) so when I plug in the USB stick the device shows up in my "computer" window. I have to mount it manually though. Can this be done automatically?

Furthermore, I'm encountering a very irritating problem. When I'v been using the USB stick and I want to unmount it afterwards, I get a "device busy". I closed all windows that I had so nothing can be busy anymore. What is the problem? Why is there no "shut up and unmount the thing"-button?

Another nice feature in Ubuntu is that when I connect my digital camera GTKam (or a clone) automatically started. Can I get Gentoo to do this as well?

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That's not really Ubuntu, that's the software that comes with gnome etc, normally, if you have everything properly configured you can't really see the difference in operation (without opening any consoles) between Ubuntu and Gentoo..

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Well, I have the volume manager up and running and my USB stick gets automatically mounted without a problem.

My MP3 player still poses a problem. Ubuntu sees it (and it even attaches a nice Ipod icon to it). Gentoo (still) doesn't. dmesg doesn't give anything at all when I plug it into the USB port. The same goes for my digital camera.

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Bekker wrote:

Well, I have the volume manager up and running and my USB stick gets automatically mounted without a problem.

My MP3 player still poses a problem. Ubuntu sees it (and it even attaches a nice Ipod icon to it). Gentoo (still) doesn't. dmesg doesn't give anything at all when I plug it into the USB port. The same goes for my digital camera.

Nap

Could be you're missing some kernel drivers, or didn't load them..._________________Working day and night to enhance your Linux Desktop experience Blog

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O.k. but what kernel modules then? I thought MP3 players and digital cameras were just seen as USB mass storage. Does anyone have any more info on that? And as I said both the MP3 player and de digital camera (Canon Powershot S50) are supported fine by Ubuntu, so there is Linux support for them.

Detection problem solved. It turned out that not only I had to compile EHCI and UHCI into the kernel but OHCI support as well. Now it detects both the MP3 player and the digital camera.

The next challenge is to change the desktop icon for the MP3 player into simething different than the one for the USB stick (I'm getting a generic USB disk icon for both now).

It also isn't possible to retrieve de photographs from the camera using gthumb. The "import photos" option in the file menu is grayed out. Using GTKam it does work however. Is this a question of using the correct USE flag when compiling gthumb.

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I haven't had much need for help in the 3 years or so that I've been using Gentoo, that goes to show for Gentoo's quality, but when I did need help the community has always been there for me, so I'm just glad to be able to give something back.